years later did the puppet regime in saigon fall. however, the vietnamese paid a high price for their freedom. more than 1000000 vietnamese people became the victims of american aggressors. ah . in time, and i'm here to plead with you whatever you do, you do not watch my new show why watch something that's so different opinions that

you won't get anywhere else. welcome to please. if you have the state department, the cia weapons makers, multi $1000000000.00 corporations, choose your facts for you. go ahead. i change and whatever you do. don't watch my show, stay mainstream because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change. and dwayne thing ah, was people likely? and in most cases it's good to be as close to one as possible. but of course, the world freedom in quinton, is all the allies of united states or in the top can be all in conflict or in the bottom. what does this say about the credibility and the criteria of the ranking

system? was kind of this edition of 316 we're going to ask is the a world of freedom index, just a ranking made by the west side justification into involvement and foreign complex . ah, since 2012 and index at the civil liberties has been published by canada. frazier institute, germany, the liberal us institute, and the us based a kiddo institute now the annual freedom index create its rankings based on measures of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, individual economic choice, free association, freedom of assembly, violence and crimes. freedom of movement and women's rights as switzerland, new zealand, denmark, estonia and ireland rank in the top 5 with syria, venezuela, yemen, sudan in egypt at the very end with iran being 6 from the bottom. but just like with almost everything, there are sometimes a large difference between what is being presented and what is actually occurring.

sure, leaders from countries like the united states, great britain and france, can almost never go an entire speech without dramatically saying the word freedom. but ask the citizens of those countries, how much freedom they enjoy, and their answers will be different. even more concerning is how many citizens feel they are enjoying less freedom than prior generations. very me now to discuss is ed martin, president of the official chef like eagles, and thank you so much for joining us. talk about the freedom index free am. when an interesting term these days, there is this technical definition of freedom and then there's this actual enactment of freedom has either changed from where used to be to now. well, you know, you and i were just talking off the air about this. i think the number one thing that we've seen change everything about what's going on is the dominance of big tech and big media together, misleading us, or not covering something. so you got to cove it for a 2nd,

so i think people now looking back and see the coven, and say what we were told, one thing and something else was true, right? and you look at that, you say this is crazy. some people more angry than this is crazy, right? but you look at like the current political, international set of issues in america. big tech and big media does not allow descent from the argument that one side is got a white hat and the other side is got a black hat. and if you do, even if you're in congress and you jump up and say, wait a 2nd, let's do some different. you get back bang down. so when you talk about freedom, you don't have freedom. if you can't know what's happening. and i really think that's the biggest change we've seen. so whatever the freedom index says to me is almost a irrelevant to what's happening on the ground to that. it's almost like 2 different standards are different, but they're saying versus what's actually happening. yeah. and regarding this index, how much credibility do you actually put into it based on the organization who put it out when you hear those 3 terms of who it is, what comes to mind? well, one of the fun things about the last 5 years in the midst of lots of things that

worry us, you know, nuclear war, a pandemic, all these things that worry us is, i think we all distrust the experts right now it's, it's like the river, it's a, whatever the mirror of reagan not trust and verify it's distrust and verify. and when you see these organizations that have an angle, again, it shouldn't surprise us that human beings act, you know, out of self interest. that doesn't, but you have these organizations for a long time, decades. we'd all say all, well, they've got the common good at heart done, then look like it any more. so you just kind of chuckle to yourself. the hard part is young people and you and i talked about this to our kids and others there, there know who to trust, right. they're, they're sort of adrift and they're looking at tick tock and other places and, and getting a sort of worse advice. so i don't trust any of it, it makes me laugh out loud. look, you know, in your experience, 10 years ago you would have covered that story more seriously. now you look at and go, come on. ok. so what does that have to do with freedom that we're talking about these organizations and they're getting to get and they're putting out these indexes. they're basing world policy trying to justify it. does that not make an impact?

you know, i lived in italy for a couple years right after school after college, and i remember the government fell and someone said, relax, the government falls in italy all the time, right? so where you are in the world where you hear terms will make a difference for us in america, you hear the term freedom. and you expect to see the rule of law to see sort of a fair dealing except right now in america, you look up and you say none of that seems to be working. and yet the freedom index is saying x or y, right? i'm this in this moment, freedom to me is the most important, perhaps in, in expressing what you believe confidently and most people won't. you know, our kids and others, they're afraid of the environment around them. and that's our problem in america. but now you see it more and more around the europe and the european union and other places to retaliation from their peers, retaliation from their government. either way, the keywords, they're retaliation, so they're kind of living in fear, not necessarily freedom. i want to get these rankings. i find

a very interesting new zealand talk about credibility. they were ranked number 2. yeah, 2 in 2022. but during the pandemic, they have is 0 tolerance policy. they locked on everyone 1st to do this mandatory vaccine, which now they repeal, right? so how can they still maintain such a high ranking in the freedom index when they want people that have least amount of freedom for the past 3 years? well, that's where you can see how there's a hole in this whole system because for them, if you don't walk down, you're somehow being on free right. in other words, and then that may be, scotty is sort of made me think a moment ago. and i wish i'd said it sooner. this freedom index is about control, right, new zealand, extruded control. what they mean is when they can control what's happening to us, the government. then they'll alice when we have freedom as opposed to freedom is kind of messy, right? freedom is people that say of noxious things, and you say, i don't really want to stand next to him if he says that, but you don't bring the government down and you don't usually fire them and you don't usually ostracize them. that's part of learning. so look,

i think that was really funny, that new zealand guy them is like a people. they're more sheep, you know, the job more sheep than people. and they're going to tell us after locked down and she said it was brutal australia, same way at doesn't look like freedom from where we, we sit and where were you? most of most americans and others are looking at it. i mean, it's common sense to think of it's freedom, the government tying you, you're free, or you really free it. glad and for it. you know, what do you think of you when you hear a liter of one country saying that they are going to engage involve themselves and another country's foreign policy, all in this name of freedom. and this is the excuse we hear. we've heard it for generations. but currently that's being used to justify other countries getting involved well and back when i, we've talked about this before i, i sat on the republican national committee, i was chamber, the missouri republican party, and i got in that room with 168 others. and you suddenly realize that a lot of these people didn't understand what national sovereignty was. this was now 2013. so people still were coming off the wars, right. building nations,

bringing our values abroad. that's a failed experiment. now we all see now that that failed dramatically, not only in cost of, of dollars but cost of blood and, and so when you, when people say, oh, let us figure out for other parts of the world. again, i live in indonesia for a year to indonesia. they have no time for the western values that we're pushing on them, even though there are lots of modernization, lots of things go it honestly years ago now. but when it comes to this idea that my sovereign nation is going to teach yours or in other countries, it never works. and in fact, it's a form of, of totalitarianism for the e. u, for example. it, by the way, it's happening all the time. the e was forcing africa to act in ways and we don't know why we don't hear about it because he doesn't want us to hear about it. and frank, it's racist. you know, there's all black people down there. they're being forced to live in the way that they're told from their freedom, not from the peoples it's, it's a terrible system. the best system is more sovereignty for the nations and for local communities. they'll figure out what freedom is for them. sometimes we'll

point to it and say that doesn't look as free. we'd like a free market. we'd like a free expression, but that's not nobody can manage that for other people. ok, so then to deny states still have the right to actually label itself the land of the free considering everything right now that we are battling here in the us. and we tell the world where the land of the free is that really? well, i always like to put it this way there's, there's always room to, to improve. but you look around the world. i think we still have the best operating system, the constitution, the founding values. we do have to get back to it. we don't need to get a new constitution. we don't need to get people that are more more in tune with that. but i look, i think that term is aspirational anyway. right. and i think, but ultimately our constitution and the rule of law, it's one of the reasons why the fight over 776 people hear it. and 16197076. it became for us away we thought about who we were. that's how i think of the land of the free. but boy, boy, i, i guess we have talked, i'm a lawyer too. and i represent some of the guys that are in jail for january 6th.

when you see how the rule of law is misapplied. there's no other term than political prisoners that's in america, that's not even in get mo, that's in america. so you say, how is that working out? but again, i go back to our operating system is great. we just have to do a better job of getting there. we have to do a better job of fighting for that system. and more and more people have to have a chance to speak up and be heard because a lot of folks like you and me we're, we're lucky to talk like this. many people just stay, i'll say, i'll just stay quiet for like user error. i will think you had martin present the flu shot that eagles for him for being with us today on the subject. great to be with you. now after the break, a leading professor from tehran dispute. iran ranking of on the bottom of the list and says if iran was actually closer allies with the west, it's a ranking would be much higher. stay tuned to the $350.00. ah ah

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she the welcome back to you with me, your host study. now we're talking today about the freedom index and whether or not the ranking is really fair and impartial as a claims to be or whether it is just another tool of american foreign policy. joining me now is a professor at mohammed, randi professor at the university. ron and a political analyst professor is the freedom index. really a just a measure of who is playing nice with the ruling a lease in washington? in my opinion, yes, that's the problem. the freedom index is a tool basically that is used in order to put pressure on countries that the united states and this allies have problems with. and to make those countries that are close to the united states feel more comfortable. it's not just the freedom and index, it's a host of different human rights organizations and the other institutions that are

used by the united states. they're funded by the united states are funded by major corporations that are close to the us government. and therefore, you will see that dictatorships in west asia, north africa, or in latin american effort, or in africa and europe that are close to the united states, or having close to the united states in the past. they will get a favourable betrayer. yet countries that have policies that are in conflict with that of the united states and other nato countries, they will be presented in a very negative life. so, to other countries, look at these indexes. do they really look at them and try to improve their society based on the metrics? not that i know, i don't think any serious person in iran or in other parts of the world that i deal

with conferences or in seminars or think tanks. i've never seen anyone take these into account. these are largely for media, therefore, schools, school projects, universities, largely in the united states. there are means of propaganda. i've don't take any of these seriously at all. and i don't think any one serious in the united states really takes them to be that important either. however, since the united states is a m m's hans of europe. but the nice it's more than anyone else since it is a very propagandized country. they tend to believe a lot of what celebrities say, a lot of what t v says television says, mainstream website say, say, so the united states is a, a, an exception to the rule. but outside the united states,

i haven't seen these indexes taken seriously. again, that's still anecdotal. do you think it is a realistic expectation to think there could be an accurate freedom index and what organization would have enough non parsing credibility to facilitate? that's very difficult to say because different countries have different situations or different parts of the world that comprise a different occupations. some of them are much more complex societies than others. on the other hand, there are countries that have the problem of external pressure. in the case of iran or venezuela, the united states tries to use political parties to undermine the state. it uses propaganda t out that cyber armies to influence internal politics. so for example,

in the case of iran where the united states and you countries have over 200 t v stations that they fund directly or indirectly that are against the rug. many more tv stations that actually actually exist inside iran. and they have many websites and thousands of trolls, many of them. and now baby, a big tag, cooperate with the united states when the united states directs its rat and its negative propaganda towards iran or, or countries like cuba. ben is where it's, it's virtually impossible to compare the journey at the country because very few countries in the world have a foreign power or foreign powers, trying to, with their internal politics in the way in which the united states us. and i don't even want to include terrorist organizations that are used to undermine civil case

. what role is the media and freedom of the press playing and whether or not a country is considered free? well, for example, in iran we have a very large number of us agencies and we have many websites that are related to different political parties. they attack the president, they attacked administration, they criticize the leader, the criticize parliament, those who support the president or the administration and them these, these exist. there are quite a few of them. but the national radio and television in the country is different. it's much more mild, it's the criticism directed towards the administration is much more polite, criticized, but not necessarily not nearly as harshly as do these

websites. but it, but that media that government media is a part of the constitution. and the constitution constitution, which was past 43 years ago, basically says that radio t v must be in the hands of the states because it was believed back then that the private sector would use the media to gain control for a liberal elite. in other words, it would gradually, the wealthy would gain control of a means to to control public opinion that that is in the running constitution, even if the government right now wants to privatize and television, we can't do so. so how do you gauge this? or in some index, each country has its own experiences that has its own constitution. those

constitutions were created within a particular context. since the iranian state television or radio television is uh, this particular nature. does that mean that the index for freedom and iran is low? no, because websites that exists in iran, they occupy offices, they are very harsh, they have their own online interviews and programs. there are very activists and i'm after corona, especially overwhelmingly, people are online. so it's very difficult to gauge what a cnn is private own, but it's not in the hands of the public. it's in the hands of a millionaire or the media in the united states and of a handful of billions or big tech. does that make it more democratic than a state own tv network? not necessarily. and i talk india's and what role do you see and he has play in

these type of indexes? well on it, jos. i think shouldn't be a part of any index or freedom index the united states uses and joe's in iraq to create instability. americans have roughly 2000 n jose there. and they use them as tools whenever they want to undermine a government that they don't like. and the same is true in other parts of the world . in iran, the united states had numerous and jose until about 14 years ago. and then jose had a very negative impact on the right in society. so when there was an n g o, that is influenced by a foreign country or by a foreign power, especially major power like the united states. then i think that that it shouldn't

be included in any freedom. in fact, i think such organizations impede freedom and society because they created mistrust tours and jose altogether do you think the freedom index served more like a target on the back of certain nations? you know, the lower down your look out here comes some regime change attempts. yeah. so the freedom index is used to demonize countries. it's used to put pressure on countries just like human rights watch, human rights watch or an intern actual may do good thing with the whole. they're very close to western governments. where does their funding come from? the funding comes from institutions and organizations that are close to the state that are close to western western political establishment that had an amnesty usa in the past was a close friend the hillary clinton. so when amnesty international,

the human rights watch, i think who's boss has been charged for decades when they are so closely affiliated to the state. even though they may do some good things here, or there, let of course the things like the freedom index or us supported and jose are nothing more than mere tools of western governments to put pressure on there and tag in this. thank you, professor mohammed miranda from the university of tehran, freedom, a term often used in speak by those in power. but last, an action, a society based on a freedom is supposed to granted those who exist within it, the ability to live their lives into as they wish, without interference from others or hindrance from their government. total freedom to some might be considered utopia. but the reality would probably be more like

a nightmare. and orderly existence with any land can only occur with the presence of carefully crafted laws and rules, meant to protect its citizens. laws are crafted with the concept of promoting a good while discouraging the bad responsibility and personal choice or the priority. now radically, if good laws are in existence, then a freedom is allowed to thrive within the boundary set. however, a bad laws can get the freedom for individuals to do wrong. what is even more dangerous is when the concept of freedom is used to justify actions which can lead to war. sadly, this is the concept most often used when a country has refused to submit to the wishes of the west and invoking freedom upon the people that land becomes the major talking point. by invoking the concept of freedom. those wage in the battle hope to stop further inquiry into the more than a far yes. motivation. i was guy now he was and this is been your for 6. if you are

the news. i think you thanks for watching. ah huh. ah ah. with a still glad aisha african who what is the best time to actually go about them? this is a little bit of a community with what i see school of a car wasn't a port backwards, but something something that might give me a port then it got daughter. the student is there a national crime? skip part of it, which it said to jeff. so, i mean, i mean, you can even go,

can be gama lucinda and be a couple of somebody at the community that they've got a lot from, you know, all right, suppose you this out like he's a little affected door only out of them. so i need it what, what does that? some is clear but, but then what's the routing does spoofing it, right? nobody for you to full. facilitate them during the summer because i've messed with kathy so much with my lab correctly was it was the case, but also then you big as to where for you will go that they should. i see it appears to notice the ship up that we're still a when i opened up with some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries,

united states of america is different. wherever people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with you little bit about it all ready? basie. she's only sitting p draw. you look at the book, they incentives of each cigarette. a few color revolutions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the help of u. s. western economic interests to pop in sadie. i didn't that he did to everybody . the democrats. yeah. new trinity color. so no, that's a little bit of power maybe can. the final goal of these thing revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore.

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